How do you become a solar?

[taltamir]

I remember seeing a lot of "become a solar" as part of min maxing on various write ups all over the internet back in the day. But looking at PaO's description on the SRD it says that max 15HD.
Is there some trick that lets one bypass the 15HD limit or did the optimizers in question just not notice the rule about 15HD limit?

[phaedrusxy]

I remember seeing a lot of "become a solar" as part of min maxing on various write ups all over the internet back in the day. But looking at PaO's description on the SRD it says that max 15HD.
Is there some trick that lets one bypass the 15HD limit or did the optimizers in question just not notice the rule about 15HD limit?

The 3.0 version of Polymorph (Other) was a lot more broken. I was in an old "Wizard challenge" thread where a DM who argued that the 3.0 spell rules were less broken than 3.5 challenged all comers to prove it. So I made a wizard that ran around permanently polymorphed into a Solar, among other things. I don't know if that's what you're thinking of (or some other version of it), or not, but I suspect it is. IIRC, he put me up against a Raksasha or something in the first (and I think only) combat we played out.

[taltamir]

Thanks phaedrusxy
I found the answer, you use divine metamagic with nightsticks to persist shapechange
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/shapechange.htm

[zook1shoe]

Through wild shape cheese, you prob could take the form of a solar

[Endarire]

NG Planar Shepherd of the Eternal Day plane with enough hit dice (plus Wild Shape boosters like Complete Champion's beast set and "Dragon"'s Skin of Kaletor) let you Wild SHape into a Solar.

[Solo]

I remember seeing a lot of "become a solar" as part of min maxing on various write ups all over the internet back in the day. But looking at PaO's description on the SRD it says that max 15HD.
Is there some trick that lets one bypass the 15HD limit or did the optimizers in question just not notice the rule about 15HD limit?

Reserves of Strength